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Board looks at improvement

Raising county awareness of UWMC

By Dan Barker

Times News Editor

Posted:
03/03/2014 04:00:00 PM MST

From left, Bo Chapin, Dan Scalise, Bob Tolson and Michelle Nelson participate in a team building activity during a retreat for the United Way of Morgan County Board of Directors. (Courtesy photo / Fort Morgan Times)

The board saw videos about the beginnings of United Way and United Way phrases

Board members participated in team building exercises, discussion of United Way's strengths and weaknesses, and what are the greatest threats to the organization.

They also discussed the top three areas they felt needed to be addressed right now.

Those were raising county awareness of what United Way is and what it does; having the board participate more directly in actual fundraising; and more accountability from the funded agencies for funding they have received.

Morgan County's United Way is an organization that brings all of the fundraising for various helping nonprofit organizations together. That way, the agencies do not compete with each other, but cooperate.

Many important efforts are funded by United Way, such as helping those in emergency situations, helping domestic violence victims, helping rape victims, including children, helping young families, finding and aiding day care, supporting the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in Morgan County, and much more.

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